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# The Arrangement: A Novel

**Brand:** ashley warlick
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			        		&#x201C;If you love historical fiction, you&apos;ll fall hard for this one. . . . Filled with food and passion, this is the perfect book to accompany a candlelit dinner.&#x201D; &#x2014;Bustle&quot;The sensual adventures of food writer M.F. K. Fisher will keep the pages turning.&quot;&#x2014;Parade.com, &quot;10 Romantic Reads for Valentine&apos;s Day&quot;&quot;If you occasionally partake in&#xA0;culinary pleasures, you&apos;ll probably enjoy digging into Ashley Warlick&apos;s novelization of beloved food writer M. F. K. Fisher&apos;s life.&quot;&#x2014;InStyle&quot;A delight....Though The Arrangement is about marriage and friendship in the 1930 and 1940s, the novel&#x2019;s story of a woman and her work is timeless.&quot;&#x2014;Charleston Post & Courier&quot;[The Arrangement] offers a lovely, affectionate portrait of the complicated woman who would become M.F.K. Fisher.&quot; &#x2014;Bookpage&quot;[Warlick&apos;s] writing is smooth and elegant. The love and anguish experienced as marriages unravel is palpable and painful to the reader.&#x201D;&#x2014;Historical Novel Society&quot;Stellar . . . A beautifully written treatment of love in its different forms.&quot;&#x2014;Publishers Weekly, starred review&quot;Food writing fans may want to check out a novelization of the life of M.F.K. Fisher, focusing on . . . the more salacious personal details of the beloved food writer&#x2019;s life.&quot;&#x2014;The Millions, &quot;Most Anticipated Books of 2016&quot;&#x201C;A ravishing depiction of the time when M.F.K. Fisher was giving herself over to her essential appetites&#x2014;for language, food and consuming passion. Ashley Warlick&#x2019;s prose, sharp and true as the edge of a honed blade, is a revelation. Absolutely dazzling.&#x201D; &#x2014;Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife &#x201C;Written in language both sensuous and evocative, The Arrangement is the story of a woman who hungers to experience everything in life. A compelling story about the costs&#x2014;and risks&#x2014;of being true to one&apos;s self, and the courage it takes to live against convention.&#x201D; &#x2014;Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper&#x2019;s Daughter &#x201C;I devoured and loved every word of Ashley Warlick&#x2019;s audacious imagining of M.F.K. Fisher&#x2019;s great love affair. The Arrangement is a powerful, enthralling, delectable thrill.&#x201D; &#x2014;Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man &#x201C;A sophisticated and unapologetic tale of wayward desire that I read far too long into the night, worrying about how M.F.K. Fisher could possibly solve her excruciating dilemma&#x2014;a dilemma that is at once impossible, seductive, and heartbreaking.&#x201D; &#x2014;Robin Oliveira, author of My Name is Mary Sutter &#x201C;Ashley Warlick spins a beguiling tale of a complicated woman, sensuous and multi-layered as the food she chronicles.&#xA0;A scrumptious treat.&#x201D; &#x2014;Janice Y. K. Lee, author of The Expatriates &#x201C;The Arrangement gives vivid voice to the complicated, fascinating, rule-breaking M.F.K. Fisher. Ashley Warlick brings the famous food writer&#x2019;s world to life in sensual and deliciously literary detail.&#x201D; &#x2014;Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters &#x201C;Warlick skillfully reveals the story of a young woman&#x2019;s sensual and creative awakening with meticulous craft and fervent splendor.&#x201D; &#x2014;J. Ryan Stradal, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest &#x201C;Ashley Warlick brings M. F. K. Fisher to life, revealing the depths of her restless, complicated, hungry soul. This is a book to be savored.&#x201D; &#x2014;Ann Mah, author of The Art of French EatingFrom the Hardcover edition.
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Ashley Warlick is the author of four novels. Her work has appeared in Redbook, The Oxford American, McSweeney&#x2019;s, and Garden and Gun, among others. The youngest ever recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, she has also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches fiction in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, South Carolina, and is the editor of the South Carolina food magazine edibleUpcountry. She is also the buyer at M. Judson, Booksellers and Storytellers in Greenville, SC, where she lives with her family.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ Kind of boring
*by A***R on January 19, 2016*

I couldn't get into this book. I found the characters dull and uninteresting, and the plot was super slow. Skip it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Words to savor
*by W***T on February 16, 2016*

In The Arrangement, novelist Ashley Warlick explores an interesting and controversial time in the life of of food writer MFK Fisher. Fisher is just beginning her literary career. Her husband, Al, is a writer, too, only he’s not able to produce anything, and their marriage suffers from his malaise. Fisher develops a strong attraction to another married man, Tim, with whom she shares her writing. This leads to a deepening intimacy and ultimately an affair. Warlick portrays this relationship with honesty and depth. It is a love story and a tragedy, as Fisher makes brave decisions uncommon for a 1940s woman.  She follows her heart, and lives with the consequences.What dazzles in this book is the narrative. Warlick has an incredible gift with words, and her descriptive passages are as lush as MFK Fisher’s writing. She honors her subject, especially in her descriptions of food, of place, of senses.Reading The Arrangement is like partaking of an elegant, seven-course meal. One tastes each bite. One savors it. But mostly, one doesn’t want it to end.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well done, great read!
*by A***S on February 11, 2016*

I very much enjoyed this new novel by Ashley Warlick.  I've read her other novels and enjoyed slipping back into her lush style of prose.  Before reading the book, I knew nothing of MFK Fisher, her life or her works.  As such, I found the book to be about an intriguing and complex personal situation, made all the more so being based on a real character.I absolutely love the rich and evocative food scenes.  They had a sensual quality to them, which heightened the tensions in the novel and gave greater insight into the main character.Well done, great read!

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